Crossing Currents: Aotearoa New Zealand Artists in Venice

Contemporary HUM

Even without a national pavilion, 2024 proved to be an historic year for Aotearoa artists in Venice, with the most artists from Aotearoa New Zealand – and the most Ngā toi Māori artists – to ever feature at the Venice Biennale and parallel events. Listen to the artists as they unravel the processes, inspirations and politics behind presenting at the world’s most prestigious contemporary art event and simultaneous exhibitions in Venice.

FEATURED ARTISTS

Areez Katki

Brett Graham (Ngāti Koroki Kahukura, Tainui)

Caitlin Devoy

Elisapeta Hinemoa Heta (Ngātiwai, Ngāpuhi, Waikato Tainui, Sāmoan, Tokelauan)

Fred Graham (Ngāti Koroki Kahukura, Tainui)

Mataaho Collective

Robert Jahnke (Ngāi Taharora, Te Whānau a Iritekura, Te Whānau a Rakairo o Ngāti Porou)

Sandy Adsett (Ngāti Pahauwera)

New episodes are released every Saturday from 22 June 2024. Visit Contemporary HUM for more info: https://contemporaryhum.com/projects/crossing-currents-aotearoa-new-zealand-artists-in-venice

CREDITS

This series is produced with the support of Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa, with editing and mixing by Hamish Petersen. Cultural advisory is provided by Matariki Williams, graphic design by Emma Kaniuk, and music by João Veríssimo.

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Caitlin Devoy in Personal Structures

Contemporary HUM speaks to artist Caitlin Devoy about BODYOBJECTS, her presentation in the 2024 edition of Personal Structures. Devoy discusses how her works challenge the power relations encoded in gallery spaces. Using humour as a feminist strategy, Devoy’s soft, tactile artworks subvert the Cartesian binaries that have historically dictated art viewership, refusing disembodied objectivity in favour of tactility, subjectivity and intuition. Visit Contemporary HUM for more info: https://contemporaryhum.com/projects/crossing-currentsNew episodes of Crossing Currents: Aotearoa New Zealand Artists in Venice are released every Saturday from 22 June 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Caitlin Devoy in Personal Structures

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Brett Graham at the 60th Venice Biennale

Contemporary HUM speaks to Brett Graham (Ngāti Koroki Kahukura, Tainui) about Wastelands (2024), his work in Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. Graham joins three other artists and one collective from Aotearoa, who make up the largest number of Aotearoa artists to ever be featured in the Biennale at once, despite there being no New Zealand Pavilion in this edition. Graham discusses Wastelands as a commentary on extractive attitudes to land, the logistics of exhibiting at the Venice Biennale and what it’s like to be included alongside an intergenerational selection of Māori artists, including his father, Fred Graham.Visit Contemporary HUM for an edited transcript of this episode, published with images from Venice: https://contemporaryhum.com/writing/crossing-currents-episode-2/New episodes of Crossing Currents: Aotearoa New Zealand Artists in Venice are released every Saturday from 22 June 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

22-06-2024

Areez Katki in Personal Structures

Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand artist Areez Katki speaks to Contemporary HUM about The Rhapsode’s Tools Will Build the Rhapsode’s House, his presentation in the 7th edition of Personal Structures in Venice. Katki discusses being invited to present in Personal Structures and the processes behind creating the works for the exhibition, including the influence of his 2023 Tylee Cottage Residency in Whanganui, Aotearoa New Zealand. Employing queer, cross-temporal relationalities, Katki discusses his works as an attempt to restore pedagogy to an instinctual, affectual realm of play, recuperating modes of knowing and learning from the dictates of hegemonic, patriarchal and ethno-religious structures.Visit Contemporary HUM for an edited transcript of this episode published with images from Venice: https://contemporaryhum.com/writing/crossing-currents-episode-1New episodes of Crossing Currents: Aotearoa New Zealand Artists in Venice are released every Saturday from 22 June 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.